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Community involvement in primary health care: guidelines for facilitation and evaluation

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1st Author : Heunis, J
Other Authors: van Rensburg, H.C.J
Publisher: Centre for Health Systems Research & Development
Publication Date: 0/1995
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Publication Type: Reports (General)
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Summary Free State communities, especially marginalised communities, are often deprived of information and consequently they tend not participate meaningfully in health-related decision-making. The task group: community involvement was established in 1994 to develop a strategy that could eventually empower health workers to become facilitors of meaningful community involvement in PHC information system.
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